Alan Pardew Happy Enough – Our Senior Players All Look Good

As well as the Newcastle youngsters looking good so far in pre-season it doesn’t seem to have taken long for the senior players at the club to get into the groove again, and we’ve seen some good performances already from some of our star players like Cheick Tiote and Demba Ba.

Alan Pardew – happy enough so far in pre-season
And today both French Internationals Yohan Cabaye and Ben Arfa will report into training at the Benton headquarters, and accompany Newcastle to Portugal later in the week, and this is what Alan had to say about the two Frenchman today:

“They come back to us today. And we’re in a good place with the senior players at the moment.”

The lads play two games in two days this coming Friday and Saturday, at the Algarve Stadium in Faro, Portugal, when Newcastle face Greek Champions Olympiacos on Friday, and then on Saturday will face Portuguese club FC Braga.

And both games will kick-off at 8:45 pm local time, and it’s another good opportunity to give all the first team players a run-out, with the games so close together.

These pre-season games are getting tougher as Newcastle continue to get ready for their first tough week of competition, starting on 18th August against Tottenham at St. James’ Park.

It was a good display on Saturday, but we should have won the game, but nevertheless Alan Pardew seems happy enough to see the senior players looking fit and in-form:

“There are so many positives for us.” “The senior players all look good and above where they should be – condition wise.” “We are definitely above where we were this time last year.”

“We should have won against Fenerbahce.” ” We should have scored a second goal to see the game out.”

And Alan Pardew will have a chance to touch base with Derek LLambias this week on what exactly is happening with the transfers – not much it seems – with Newcastle still having to complete their first senior transfer of the summer.

The club seems to be in negotiations for Mathieu Debuchy, Douglas, Andy Carroll and Lois Remy, if the news is to be believed, and wouldn’t it be nice ( Beach Boys – 1966), to get one of those players through the door this week.

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According to reports in The People, Barcelona striker Gerard Deulofeu is a target for two Premier League clubs. Liverpool reportedly want to sign the Spain Under 19 international permanently, with a fee of £7.5million mooted, while Queens Park Rangers are considering a loan deal.
by @skysportsbucko 6:08 PM yesterday
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i hope 1 day we can produce youngsters like at Barcelona. Never ending supply of world class players.

Cheers for the response on previous thread re the AC/enrique/greggs/tramp rumour. I feel better knowing this info seem to be true, due to so many agreeing about it I think I’ll pop into milligans round the corner later to see if owt else is going down

I’m friends with Andy Carroll on Facebook and can confirm he ‘checked in’ at a summer BBQ last night with a status of ‘is…”having a burger, a newcy brown, whilst having a chat about my future and listening to ‘coming home’!!

Hey, I have it on authority that this was a high-class bbq, with TWO types of sausage, and chicken thighs in a chinese sauce. In fact, maybe the itk got source confused with ‘sauce’ and was actually taking to a bottle of Levi Roots reggae reggae jerk marinade!?

Here we are lads, another load of bullshit rumours for u to chew on for a few days.
Coming from a GOOD SAUCE,no,not the old guys cat from down the road.
Apparently the Douglas deal is done,its just the agent trying to get a better share for himself which is the hurdle.
We have NOT got Debuchy in the bag and are instead going to sign Cissokho.
We are close to signing the Mackem target Phillipsfrom Blackpool.
There u go. Enjoy

Couple of things- He’s not a scouser- hes just got a flat there and supports liverpool- in fact hes not even English.

Hes a very well known footy expert and knows most of the goings on at liverpool- hence why I asked about Carroll and Enrique (Enrique who he knows personally).

I came back (from Australia) to this sunny Mediterranean country for a wedding and this ‘guest’ happened to be here. I’ll be meeting him again tonight for a couple of games of blackjack and a few beerio’s and i’ll be sure to ask him whatever i can without bothering him.

In honor of two dedicated Newcastle fans, who lost their lives supporting Newcastle United, when their passenger jet was shot down over Ukraine on Thursday July 17th, 2014 by rebels, as they were traveling to support the team in New Zealand.

We will never forget them.

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Health Update - 4 Feb, 2015

I had another battery of medical tests early last week, and the results show my PSA count as undetectable, which means the prostate cancer is still under control, and there is no trace of cancer in the body.

I'm very pleased about that!

Ed Harrison

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